Crimson Gem Saga

[Zantezuken]

Any workaround for the garbage outlines when using Texture Scaling methods?

[Nightcrauler]

I am having the same freeze problem with the principal but much later in the game , after you lose the fight with the big ogre and he imprisons you. I've tried everything but doesnt seam to move through it. Playing in samsung galaxy s4. Plz help already hooked with the game...

[Lerianis]

Having a problem in PPSSPP 1.1.1 with this game. When I am called to the office at the beginning of the game to speak to Herbert, the first two lines (one from Herbert and one from the Main Character) play and then the game freezes and/or crashes. Anyone have a way past this issue or has experienced it themselves as well?
I have turned off all experimental and unstable settings in PPSSPP thinking that it might be one of those that is/was the issue but no joy.

Getting an error in the console of "user_main W[MM]: MemmapFunctions.cpp:93 ReadFromHardware: Invalid address 00000004".
So apparently it is seeing some sort of error and unable to read something and it is fitzing out?

For full disclosure I am playing this from a USB 3.0 external drive but it should be quick enough to keep up with the game.

Edit: After reading the thread it appears that something broke a long time ago from version 0.9.8 to version 1.0.0. Known issue but still one that needs a fix.\

Edit 2: Okay I managed to figure out what the problem was: I had to turn Texture Scaling OFF until I got past that second sentence and then I could turn it back on and keep on playing with it on.
Some weird problem with texture scaling.

[kschewe]

So far I am not able to get past the principle meeting at the beginning of the game. It freezes and have to close the program. This is the best emulator for psp. It played every rom I have so far except for this one. I am on the newest version. I might try and older version .76 later to test. Can anyone verify they have it working for android? I tried changing settings like texture scaling on/off and other things but did not help.
Thanks

[vsub_]

Use v1.0-83-g1ecfd6c,that's the last working one.
Btw if I disable Fast Memory(otherwise it crashes without anything informative),ppsspp start spamming
W[MM]: MemmapFunctions.cpp:95 ReadFromHardware: Invalid address 00000004
and if I disable "Ignore Invalid Read/Writes" ppsspp display this once and stop here(no spamming but the game freeze)
W[MM]: MemmapFunctions.cpp:95 ReadFromHardware: Invalid address 00000004 PC 0884eb94 LR 0884ebdc

It also extremely rarely passes that scene but I'm not sure if its because of settings

[kschewe]

Thanks Vsub I can confirm that crimson gem saga works on v1.0-83-g1ecfd6c on android 4.4
ULUS-10400

[Michthunder]

I have the same problem of the game crashing when I go talk to the principal office at the beginning of the game.

I'm using PPSSPP v1.1.1 on Android 5.0 and I have the Texture scaling option OFF, but it keeps crashing.

Edit: I just found the solution, in the Performance section change the Display resolution (HW scaler) and put Auto (same as rendering solution)
, also my rendering solution is 2x PSP. With this I can pass the problem without issues.

Edit 2: I have found the same problem in 3 other parts of the game, always in conversacion that are part of the story. The last one though I can't pass just by restarting the ppsspp, this time no matter what I do, it just keep crashing. And it's a real shame because this is really a good game.

[razuta]

Hey guys, my games crash after i beat enlergoth, the moment dryden comes out and there are dialogue between dryden and Lahduk, the ppsspp force closed, im plaing it on asus fonepad 8, rooted and kitkat firmware, tried every possible settings, but still no luck, tried with normal load savegames (not savestate), but still crashed and the last thing i tried is, im trying to play it on my laptop with gtx860m, and with my fonepad's savegames, but still, the games crash the moment lahduk make conversation with dryden. So any idea guys? I really loves this games. Thx a lot.

Edit 1: Okay for anyone that experienced crash when playing this game, this is what I do:
- Im using PPSSPP ver 1.2.2 with infinite money cheat enabled in early 30 minutes, then I disabled it, I Downloaded it from playstore, everytime it crash, I just tweaking graphic options and system, like multithreaded etc
-After I beaten enlegoth and I got permanent crash, I change my ppsspp version to v1.0-83-g1ecfd6c windows version, after I successfully pass permanent crash, I copied my savegames from windows to my ppsspp's android version and voila, i can play it without issues, until now.

Hope it works for you guys.

[shadowslayr2013]

i need help im running ppsspp on a windows 10 and i have crimson gem saga and it cuts out when i get to the principle how do i fix that

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i tried that but it doesnt work

[bigal80ak]

i am also having a crash at the principles office in the beginning of the game. I tried changing graphics settings, restarting and none of that worked i am using the most up to date 1.2.2 is there another trick or maybe a version that plays it smooth? I am on windows 7 64x so far no luck thanks for any help.

[bigal80ak]

(05-01-2016 01:55 PM)bigal80ak Wrote:  i am also having a crash at the principles office in the beginning of the game. I tried changing graphics settings, restarting and none of that worked i am using the most up to date 1.2.2 is there another trick or maybe a version that plays it smooth? I am on windows 7 64x so far no luck thanks for any help.

nevermind i tried all versions of ppsspp and finally 9.9.1 worked fine. I wonder what changed

[nightmares]

This game crashes a lot in various cutscenes that has voice acting. Thanks for the tips guys. I try v1.0-83-g1ecfd6c , it works great.

[greghacker]

I tried to bypass the Ogre instance with 1.0-83 but when I transfer my savestate from 1.2.2 and try to load it there, it says "the savestate is from an older version of PPSSPP"!!
Is there a way to do this?

[LunaMoo]

^ No, savestates are not backward compatible and you should never depend purely on savestates when playing games, they keep all memory corruption so fixing problems by loading already bugged savestates will usually just load the problem again.

~

That being said, this is just a nasty timing issue which might not get a proper fix anytime soon so I made a cwcheat workaround for this:

Code:

_S ULUS-10400
_G Crimson Gem Saga
_C0 Freeze Workaround
_L 0xE0070880 0x10002000
_L 0x20002000 0x3C1B0880
_L 0x20002004 0x34090100
_L 0x20002008 0x34080000
_L 0x2000200C 0x1509FFFF
_L 0x20002010 0x25080001
_L 0x20002014 0x0A223DBA
_L 0x20002018 0x00000000
_L 0xE0063DBA 0x0002C8A4
_L 0x2002C8A4 0x0E200800
_L 0x20032ED0 0x0E200800
_L 0x2002455C 0x0E200800
_L 0x20050210 0x0E200800
_L 0x20026C10 0x0E200800
_L 0x20026D30 0x0E200800
_C0 Freeze Workaround [Disable]
_L 0x2002C8A4 0x0E223DBA
_L 0x20032ED0 0x0E223DBA
_L 0x2002455C 0x0E223DBA
_L 0x20050210 0x0E223DBA
_L 0x20026C10 0x0E223DBA
_L 0x20026D30 0x0E223DBA

which will allow playing the game on latest ppsspp version just fine.

Edit: That's 4th version of the cheat, tested/working up to chapter III so far through the whole game, including optional areas.

[bomberman46]

(06-30-2016 10:16 PM)LunaMoo Wrote:  ^ No, savestates are not backward compatible and you should never depend purely on savestates when playing games, they keep all memory corruption so fixing problems by loading already bugged savestates will usually just load the problem again.

~

That being said, this is just a nasty timing issue which might not get a proper fix anytime soon so I made a cwcheat workaround for this:

Code:

_S ULUS-10400
_G Crimson Gem Saga
_C0 Freeze Workaround
_L 0xE008000E 0x0008F6E8
_L 0x2008F6E8 0x0A200800
_L 0x20002000 0x3409000A
_L 0x20002004 0x00004021
_L 0x20002008 0x25080001
_L 0x2000200C 0x1528FFFE
_L 0x20002010 0x00000000
_L 0x20002014 0x0A223DBC
_L 0x20002018 0x00C04821
_C0 Freeze Workaround [Disable]
_L 0x2008F6E8 0x6A00000E

which will allow playing the game on latest ppsspp version just fine.
Didn't really tested it much, but this isn't any interesting fix, the cheat merely wastes some time, simulating old timings with which this game apparently by some luck worked better.

If anyone cares to see this cwcheat workaround ported to the other two regions, just need an address of this function:

~easily found as shown above in "func" list in ppsspp disassembly (only on windows, debug menu->disassembly or ctrl+D). Double clicking on it's name on the list will center the view on it and then can easily right click on the line that says "memset_jak: * replacement: move t1, a2" and choose "Copy Address".

Thank you LunaMoo for once again fixing another game crash. What would we do without you?

Edit: I'm still getting crashes for the Principal scene no matter what settings I use. Can anyone else confirm if you're able to bypass that scene?